un' anno a

its been a year since i left motherland for down under. time really flies. i think i am so used to the aussie lifestyle that i will feel lost when i go back to singapore. i always have this thinking that i will be settling down and living in other countries except singapore. isnt it awesome? i am very interested in living and working in europe for a few years, hence i hope my proposed exchange program in milan will end off with an internship in europe.

just received back my summer semester results. disappointed and shocked. disappointed because i was supposed to do better than a distinction for macroeconomics. shocked because i got high distinction for accounting for corporate structures as i failed the mcq test earlier and i was writing crap answers for a couple of questions of th final paper. anyway, its over. im just looking forward to uni reopening, quite excited about it though.

o yes, love my italian class. its a class which i will never fall asleep at all. a place to learn a new language and meet different people. so glad to make friends with allira and kimberly as they are also going to milan. allira is going there to learn italian and kimberly is on a scholarship for fashion shoe designing.

arrivederci 08, benvenuti 09

ciao everyone, firstly i would like to wish everyone a very happy new year. i hope everyone is as excited as me at whats going upcoming this year because it is going to be one hell of a year for me, i hope, if everything goes as anticipated.

firstly, spent christmas and new year in melbourne. it was a good trip, so much so that i had to drag myself up the plane back to brisbane because it means that holiday is over and back to books. i indulged in an estimated seven-hundred dollars shopping spree during the pre-christmas sales and post-christmas boxing day sales. everything was at least forty percent off and knowing me, i had to buy. compared to singapore's great singapore sale and year-end-sale, this is the real thing man. i think from now on, i am going to attempt to spend christmas in countries which 'celebrate' boxing day sales. apart from that, went to watch an australian-league soccer match between melbourne victory and sydney fc at the telstra dome. stadium was magnificent but i believe theres more to come with san siro stadium, old trafford, nou camp, anfield and emirates stadium just to name a few. it was an exciting match with sydney fc scoring on the twenty-ninth second (yes! 29 seconds) and on the third minute to silence the melbourne crowd all the way till the second half when melbourne gave them a kiss-my-ass fightback and scored three goals to win the game. if this happened in asia, it is gonna be called 'kelong'. i also went up to mount dandenong for the ever-yummy ms marple's scones and devonshire tea, which is a must-do for every melbourne trip. not forgetting torquay for some surfer's brand.

08 just came and flew by. at the start of the year, was so excited of my departure of singapore for australia. now, a year has just passed. one thing i regret most was not making many more new friends than i had hoped for. on the positive side, i think i have settled myself very well in brisbane and also done well for my studies. i am just awaiting for a confirmation for my transfer to commerce program to put myself at ease.

so whats in for 09? i think the 'in' event for me is my proposed trip to milan as an exchange student for the second half of the year. seriously, i cannot wait for it to happen. it is going to be one hell of a time being on the other side of the globe alone. i really really hope to make many many friends from all over the world when i am there. however, to do so, i must really really start to open my mouth more and yak yak yak around. being there equals to travels travels and even more travels around europe. so for this first half of the year, i will have to scrimp and save so that i will be financially-sufficient to enjoy myself in europe.

i can have a bit of breather now as i have just finished my mid-semester examination yesterday. i was so stressed over this particular paper. couldnt sleep well for the past week. partly was because i failed the mcq exam i had earlier for this course. but i think i should be able to pass this mid-semester examination even though i have just found out that i had completed one question incomplete. fuming over this, argh...

thats all for now folks...

mio primo

i failed my first ever test in UQ, which i kinda expected. mixed feelings though. it was tough, so tough that seventy-five percent failed. i am glad that it was just only ten percent of the full assessment and i had only just failed (got four.five). this is the first time that i wished it was a written paper and not mcq questions. this is because i would have been able to use the famous 'only-made-in-singapore' education method of vomitting out all the consolidation and elimination journal entries that were in my head, then i would have at least get marks from the workings. i will take this as a reality-check and start working my ass off for the mid semester paper on tenth of january. its not daniel to just pass the paper, at least a credit for this course.

oops, but im going to melbourne during the christmas-new year period.

"WAKE UP YOUR IDEAS, DANIEL!"

estate scuola

hello, not too long ago, i had just finished my examinations. and now before i know it, i am continuing my road to a degree with summer semester. this is so sudden, i feel that i have not recuperate and recharge myself from the last semester. but this is what i chose so i have to stick with it. boy o boy, summer semester is really truly intensive. i've got two lectures + two tutorials of macroeconomics and three lectures + three tutorials of accounting per week. in contrast, it is just one lecture + one tutorial per week for each course, i.e. subject, during normal semester. hectic.

yueying has gone back to singapore. other mates too. think gonna miss the feeling of her sitting beside me while im behind the wheels, having brunches in new farm and shopping in dfos.

going back to study now. have a mcq accounting test at noon tomorrow. this accounting course is seriously tough. ciao.

ben fatto!

i think i have reaped the rewards of my study strategy. despite skipping almost forty hours of nothing-goes-into-your-head computer-based management information system lectures plus tutorials, and working on friday and saturday nights, i am elated that i have done well and achieved my target for this semester.

dean commended: "well done, mate!"